Archive

  • AIA president says renewables key to helping Mainland economy thrive

    30 December 2021

    Underwriters put HK$270bn in bonds annually, "but not because we are getting a particularly good yield and certainly not a good spread"

  • French underwriters axed nearly €1bn of coal exposure in 2020

    29 December 2021

    Divestments happened at fastest rate since at least 2015

  • AMP agrees M&A for infrastructure outsourcing partner

    29 December 2021

    Wurttembergische, R&V and Gothaer among debt-investing clients of AMP Capital

  • Chinese political risk - a real or imagined threat in the minds of CIOs?

    29 December 2021

    To most investors China is an object of allocation-lust, for its gigantic size and the promise of exponential opportunities. But insurers still fear risk. Is that justified? Vincent Huck seeks some answers

  • French and their equities

    29 December 2021

    They love it, but in small proportions

  • Allianz establishes Japanese residential property fund

    29 December 2021

    In partnership with Ivanhoé Cambridge, it plans to raise $750m in first close

  • Comment - Enter the dragon? Will Hong Kong's CIOs be persuaded, or compelled, to invest in China?

    28 December 2021

    Hong Kong's insurers must meet claims/promises, but are being told they should support the Mainland's economy, too

  • CIO Interview: Allianz US' Todd Hedtke

    27 December 2021

    Todd Hedtke, chief investment officer at Allianz US, reflects on 2021, a year marked by "very significant changes". Interview by Abbie Wood

  • EEA's insurers' bond appetite revealed

    27 December 2021

    French CIOs love bonds, Northern Europeans prefer corporates and eastern Europeans like govvies

  • Chart of the week - CIOs rush to 'junk', but Gordon Gekko is nowehere to be seen...

    24 December 2021

    A hunt for junk by insurers worldwide is more about honouring promises, than being greedy